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Found and Ground A practical guide to making your own foraged paints Paperback Caroline Ross 9781800920996 $28.95 ART Jul 25, 2023

Everything you need to learn how to make your own natural watercolor paints, oak gall ink and the brushes and pens to use them with. You’ll find out how to forage for the materials you need in your locale and grasp the principles of simple, natural paint-making.Natural’, ‘no waste’ and ‘plastic-free’. If this is how you want to live your creative life, you will find a greener, more natural path with this book. It details a more sustainable and fulfilling approach to painting. Covering every aspect of making natural paints, from finding raw mate... + Read More
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Picasso's War How Modern Art Came to America Paperback Hugh Eakin 9780451498496 $27.99 ART Sep 26, 2023

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A riveting story of how dueling ambitions and the power of prodigy made America the cultural center of the world—and Picasso the most famous artist alive—in the shadow of World War II“[Eakin] has mastered this material, read a mountain of sources and synthesized them skillfully, and he manages to braid aesthetics with history with personal details…. The book soars. His achievement is keeping the complex plotline moving, while offering sharp insights and astute judgments.”—The New York Times Book ReviewIn January... + Read More
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The Prophet's Camel Bell Penguin Modern Classics Edition Paperback Margaret Laurence 9780771007408 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 08, 2023

Part travelogue, part autobiography, part celebration of human nature, The Prophet’s Camel Bell is essential reading for anyone who has ever been a stranger in a strange land—and it’s now a Penguin Modern Classic.When Margaret Laurence set out for Somaliland with her engineer husband in 1950, she confronted the difficulty of communication between peoples of vastly different cultures. Yet she came to know the skilled orators, poets and craftsmen of the country, and to share the vision of a people’s struggle for survival in a barren land.Full of ... + Read More
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The Art Thief A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession Hardcover Michael Finkel 9780735278950 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 27, 2023

The true story of the world’s most prolific art thief—a spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, from the bestselling author of The Stranger in the Woods.For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways, but no one has been quite as successful at stealing art as the master thief Stéphane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred brazen heists over ten years—in museums and churches across Europe—Breitwieser, along with his girlfriend, who served as lookout, stole more than three hundred artworks, worth an estimat... + Read More
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Congratulations, The Best Is Over! Essays Hardcover R. Eric Thomas 9780593496268 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 08, 2023

The beloved bestselling author of Here for It returns with an all-new collection of heartening, deeply relatable, and laugh-out-loud funny essays about what happens after happily ever after.After going viral “reading” the chaotic political news, having one-too-many awkward social encounters, and coming to terms with his intersecting identities, R. Eric Thomas finally knew who he was and where he was going. He was living his best life.But then everything changed.In this collection of insightful and hilarious essays, Thomas finds himself moving b... + Read More
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It Stops Here Standing Up for Our Lands, Our Waters, and Our People Hardcover Rueben George 9780735242807 $34.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 29, 2023

A personal account of one man’s confrontation with colonization that illuminates the philosophy and values of a First Nation on the front lines of the fight against an extractive industry, colonial government, and threats to the life-giving Salish Sea.It Stops Here is the profound story of the spiritual, cultural, and political resurgence of a nation taking action to reclaim their lands, waters, law, and food systems in the face of colonization. In deeply moving testimony, it recounts the intergenerational struggle of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation... + Read More
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The Church of Baseball The Making of Bull Durham Paperback Ron Shelton 9780593313961 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 20, 2023

LA TIMES BESTSELLER • From the award-winning screenwriter and director of cult classic Bull Durham, the extremely entertaining behind-the-scenes story of the making of the film, and an insightful primer on the art and business of moviemaking.“This book tells you how to make a movie—the whole nine innings of it—out of nothing but sheer will.” —Tony Gilroy, writer/director of Michael Clayton and The Bourne Legacy”The only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the church of baseball."—Annie in Bull DurhamBull Durham, the breakthrou... + Read More
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Horse Barbie A Memoir Hardcover Geena Rocero 9780593445884 $37.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 30, 2023

The dazzling, heartfelt memoir of a trans pageant queen from the Philippines who went back into the closet to model in New York City—until she realized that living her truth was the only way to step into her full power.As a young femme in 1990s Manila, Geena Rocero heard, “Bakla, bakla!,” a taunt aimed at her feminine sway, whenever she left the tiny universe of her eskinita. Eventually, she found her place in trans pageants, the Philippines’ informal national sport. When her competitors mocked her as a “horse Barbie” due to her statuesque phys... + Read More
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Mistakes to Run With My Story of Rebellion, Life on the Street, and Finding My Way Paperback Yasuko Thanh 9780735234437 $22.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 02, 2023

NATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST for the 2020 BC Book Prizes’ Jim Deva Prize for Writing That ProvokesFrom the winner of the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize comes an honest memoir that examines how circumstances—and the choices we make—dictate the people we become.Mistakes to Run With chronicles the turbulent life of Yasuko Thanh, from early childhood in the closest thing Victoria, BC, has to a slum to teen years as a sex worker and, finally, to her emergence as an award-winning author. As a child, Thanh embraced evangelical religion, only to r... + Read More
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Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes The Official Biography Paperback Rob Wilkins 9781529176902 $22.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 29, 2023

WINNER OF THE 2023 LOCUS AWARD FOR NON-FICTIONWINNER OF THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION’Always readable, illuminating and honest. It made me miss the real Terry.’ - Neil Gaiman’Sometimes joyfully, sometimes painfully, intimate…it is wonderful to have this closeup picture of the writer’s working life.’ - Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Observer————At the time of his death in 2015, award-winning and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett was working on his finest story yet - his own.The creator of the phenomenally bestsel... + Read More
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Paper Trails From the Backwoods to the Front Page, a Life in Stories Hardcover Roy MacGregor 9781039000735 $38.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 01, 2023

One of Canada’s greatest journalists shares a half century of the stories behind the stories.From his vantage point harnessed to a tree overlooking the town of Huntsville (he tended to wander), a very young Roy MacGregor got in the habit of watching people—what they did, who they talked to, where they went. He has been getting to know his fellow Canadians and telling us all about them ever since.From his early days in the pages of Maclean’s, to stints at the Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, National Post and most famously from his perch on page tw... + Read More
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The Tenth Nerve A Brain Surgeon's Stories of the Patients Who Changed Him Paperback Dr. Chris Honey 9781039001183 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 29, 2023

Combining a humane perspective, lively anecdotes, and a deep curiosity about the uncharted territories of the human brain, The Tenth Nerve is a richly fascinating memoir that will fill you with wonder.“The scalpel can only go so deep, and technical skill can only take one so far.”In this absorbing narrative, Dr. Chris Honey, an accomplished neurosurgeon at Vancouver General Hospital, weaves his personal journey together with case studies that reflect the thrill of scientific discovery and the limitations of medicine. Operating on a terminally i... + Read More
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The Country of the Blind A Memoir at the End of Sight Hardcover Andrew Leland 9781984881427 $39.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 18, 2023

A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to blindness and his quest to learn about blindness as a rich culture all its own“The Country of the Blind is about seeing—but also about marriage and family and the moral and emotional challenge of accommodating the parts of ourselves that scare us. A warm, profound, and unforgettable meditation on how we adjust to new ways of being in the world.” —Rachel Aviv, author of Strangers to OurselvesWe meet Andrew Leland as he’s suspended in the liminal st... + Read More
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Waiting to Be Arrested at Night A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide Hardcover Tahir Hamut Izgil 9780593491799 $37.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 01, 2023

A poet’s account of one of the world’s most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family’s escape from genocideOne by one, Tahir Hamut Izgil’s friends disappeared. The Chinese government’s brutal persecution of the Uyghur people had continued for years, but in 2017 it assumed a terrifying new scale. The Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim minority group in western China, were experiencing an echo of the worst horrors of the twentieth century, amplified by China’s establishment of an all-seeing high-tech surveillance state. Over a mi... + Read More
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Almost Brown A Mixed-Race Family Memoir Hardcover Charlotte Gill 9780735243033 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 06, 2023

“A Canadian masterpiece.”—The Toronto StarAn award-winning writer retraces her unconventional, biracial, globe-trotting family’s journey as she reckons with ethnicity and belonging, diversity and race, and the complexities of life within a multicultural household.Charlotte Gill’s father is Indian. Her mother is English. They meet in 1960s London when the world is not quite ready for interracial love. Their union results in a total meltdown of familial relations, a lot of immigration paperwork, and three children, all in varying shades of tan. T... + Read More
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Girl, Interrupted Paperback Susanna Kaysen 9780679746041 $22.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 19, 1994

A thirtieth anniversary edition of the classic memoir of mental illness that was made into an award-winning film—now with a new introduction by the author about why the book has meant so much to so many.In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she’d never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. Her memoir of the next two years is “poignant, honest, triumphantly funny” (The New York Times Book Review), and has become a classic in the tradition of The Bell Jar and An Unquiet Mind.The McLean... + Read More
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Better Living Through Birding Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World Hardcover Christian Cooper 9780593242384 $37.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 13, 2023

Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video that shocked a nation and into a world of avian adventures, global excursions, and the unexpected lessons you can learn from a life spent looking up at the birdsChristian Cooper is a self-described Blerd (Black nerd), an avid comics fan, and an expert birder who devotes every spring to gazing upon the migratory birds that stop to rest in Central Park, just a subway ride away from where he lives in New York City. When birdwatching in the park one morning in May 2020, Cooper was... + Read More
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Solito A Memoir Paperback Javier Zamora 9780593498088 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 06, 2023

A young poet tells the inspiring story of his unforgettable migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this “gripping memoir” (NPR) of bravery, hope, and finding family. “I read Solito with my heart in my throat and did not burst into tears until the last sentence. What a person, what a writer, what a book. A masterpiece.”—Emma StraubA READ WITH JENNA PICK“A riveting tale of perseverance and the lengths humans will go to help each other in times of struggle.”—Dave EggersTrip. My parents started using that word about a... + Read More
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A Renaissance of Our Own A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining Hardcover Rachel E. Cargle 9780593134733 $38.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 16, 2023

From a highly lauded modern voice in feminism and racial justice comes a deeply personal and insightful approach to the power of reimagining to dismantle the frameworks and systems that no longer serve us while building liberating new ones.There are breaking points in all our lives when we realize that the way things have been done before no longer serve us, be it the way we approach our relationships, our belief systems, our work, our education, even our rest. For activist, philanthropist, and CEO Rachel Cargle, reimagining—the act of creating... + Read More
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The In-Between Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments Hardcover Hadley Vlahos R.N. 9780593499931 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 13, 2023

Passionate advocate for end-of-life care and TikTok star Nurse Hadley shares moving stories of joy, wisdom, and redemption from her patients’ final moments, offering powerful lessons on facing death, recovering from loss, and how to live your life in this deeply personal memoir.Talking about death and dying is considered taboo in polite company, and even in the medical field. Our ideas about dying are confusing at best: Will our memories flash before our eyes? Regrets consume our thoughts? Does a bright light appear at the end of a tunnel? For ... + Read More
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Scenes from My Life A Memoir Paperback Michael K. Williams 9780593240397 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 22, 2023

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “gripping, revelatory” (NPR) memoir of hard-won success, struggles with addiction, and a lifelong mission to give back—from the late iconic actor beloved for his roles in The Wire, Boardwalk Empire, and Lovecraft Country“Williams’s cool rasp leaps off every page, his story told in the direct yet impassioned language that defined his greatest characters.”—VultureWhen Michael K. Williams died on September 6, 2021, he left behind a career as one of the most electrifying actors of his generation. From his star turn as ... + Read More
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Joy Hunter Messy Faceplants, Radical Love, and the Journey That Changed Everything Hardcover Alexis Jones 9780593578063 $37.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 13, 2023

A timely and cinematic memoirchronicling one woman’s journey to rediscover her own power, resilience, and happiness—things you can’t check off a list but must find within yourself.With a successful speaking career putting her on the road 250 days a year, a slew of prestigious awards for her activism, the hugely successful book I Am That Girl, and a happy marriage, Alexis Jones was living a seemingly charmed life. But the principles of self-care, setting boundaries, and eschewing perfectionism that she espoused in her talks didn’t seem to transl... + Read More
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A Terribly Serious Adventure Philosophy and War at Oxford, 1900-1960 Hardcover Nikhil Krishnan 9780525510604 $38.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 04, 2023

A lively, immersive account of the colorful and brilliant philosophers who roamed the halls of mid-twentieth-century Oxford and taught the world the importance of languageWhat are the limits of language? How can philosophy be brought closer to everyday life? What is a good human being?These were among the questions that philosophers wrestled with in mid-twentieth-century Britain, a period shadowed by war and the rise of fascism. In response to these events, thinkers such as Philippa Foot (originator of the famous trolley problem), Isaiah Berlin... + Read More
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Kingdom Quarterback Patrick Mahomes, the Kansas City Chiefs, and How a Once Swingin' Cow Town Chased the Ultimate Comeback Hardcover Mark Dent 9780593472033 $41.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 22, 2023

Fresh off of a gutsy, thrilling 2023 Super Bowl win for the Kansas City Chiefs, two inspiring stories that fit perfectly together—a biography of superstar quarterback, Patrick Mahomes, who brought the Chiefs to their first Super Bowl win in fifty years in 2019 as well as a second in 2023, along with the historical struggles and recent resurgence of the former “Paris of the Plains,” Kansas City.Kansas City, and the people who live there, have been through a lot, from racial injustice to mob violence to economic struggles. But like so many other ... + Read More
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Ultramarathon Man: Revised and Updated Confessions of an All-Night Runner Paperback Dean Karnazes 9780593712740 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 20, 2023

Revised, updated and with a new afterword. The Ultramarathon man is back with new additions to his bestselling memoirUltramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner helped introduce the world to ultramarathoning. Now, after three decades of running ultramarathons across the globe, Karnazes is still going strong. This updated and revised edition includes an afterword full of the lessons he’s picked up along the way. He gives personal details on the essential pillars of health—fitness, diet and sleep. What does he eat, what supplements does... + Read More
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Directions to Myself A Memoir of Four Years Hardcover Heidi Julavits 9780451498519 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 27, 2023

A sharply observed memoir of motherhood and the self, and a love letter to Maine, by a writer Eula Biss calls “witty, sly, critical, inventive” and whose mind Leslie Jamison calls “electric.”That night, in his bed, I spread my son’s palm wide and tried to read it. If the hand was a map that led to a future person, was there any changing the destination? One day Heidi Julavits sees her son silhouetted by the sun and notices he is at the threshold of what she calls “the end times of childhood.” When did this happen, she asks herself. Who is my so... + Read More
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Defiant Dreams The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education Hardcover Sola Mahfouz 9780593359761 $37.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 06, 2023

A searing, deeply personal memoir of a tenacious Afghan girl who educated herself behind closed doors and fought her way to a new life.Sola Mahfouz was born in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 1996. That same year, the Taliban took over her country for the first time. They banned television and photographs, presided over brutal public executions, and turned the clock backwards on women’s rights, practically imprisoning women within their own homes and forcing them to wear all-concealing burqas. At age eleven, Sola was forced to stop attending school a... + Read More
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When the World Didn't End A Memoir Hardcover Guinevere Turner 9780593237595 $37.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 23, 2023

In this immersive, spell-binding memoir, an acclaimed screenwriter tells the story of her childhood growing up with the infamous Lyman Family cult—and the complicated and unexpected pain of leaving the only home she’d ever knownOn January 5, 1975, the world was supposed to end. Under strict instructions from the Family leader, seven-year-old Guinevere Turner put on her best dress, grabbed her favorite toy, and waited with the rest of her community for salvation—a spaceship that would take them to live on Venus. But the spaceship never came.Guin... + Read More
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The Song of Significance A New Manifesto for Teams Hardcover Seth Godin 9780593715543 $34.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS May 30, 2023

A soulful re-envisioning of what work and leadership can be, from the visionary mind of renowned author and thought leader, Seth GodinThe Song of Significance is a rousing contemplation on work: why it is the way it is, why it’s gotten so bad, what all of us–especially leaders–can do to make it better.Economic instability and the rise of remote work have left us disconnected and disengaged. Alarmed managers are responding with harsh top-down edicts, layoffs, surveillance and mandatory meetings. Workers are responding by quiet quitting and worki... + Read More
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Creativity, Inc. (The Expanded Edition) Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration Hardcover Ed Catmull 9781039007543 $39.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Jun 13, 2023

The co-founder and longtime president of Pixar updates and expands upon his New York Times bestseller about creative leadership, reflecting on the management principles used to build Pixar’s singularly successful culture—including what he got wrong and how he made it right.In 1986, Ed Catmull co-founded Pixar, a modest start-up with an immodest goal: to make the first-ever computer-animated movie. Nine years later, Pixar released Toy Story, which went on to establish Pixar as one of the most successful and innovative companies on earth. In 2014... + Read More
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Arca Paperback Van Jensen 9781684059980 $22.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jul 11, 2023

The planet is dying, the rich are escaping, and absolutely nothing is what it seems in this thrilling new dystopian graphic novel.The world burned. But the rich and powerful…they had a plan.When society fell apart, a select group of billionaires had an escape hatch: a rocket aimed at the nearest habitable planet, a ship equipped with many of the luxuries of life on Earth—why survive if you can’t survive in style? Their every need is tended to by teenagers who are willing to act as slaves in return for the promise of a new life. This is a good s... + Read More
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Chester 5000 (Book 1) Hardcover Jess Fink 9781603095358 $26.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jun 27, 2023

A vintage delight for adult readers of all stripes, Jess Fink’s award-winning graphic novel debut reads like a whimsical love child of steampunk, silent film, and erotic comics.1885: an age of industrial revolution and sexual frustration. Pricilla is a woman with needs, and her inventor husband, Robert, is a little too busy with his experiments to keep her fully satisfied. Science to the rescue! With a few gears and springs, the proper appendages, a little lubrication, and a lot of love, Chester 5000 is born! He’s the perfect tool for the job…B... + Read More
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Series: STWMANDO2022 STAR WARS: THE MANDALORIAN - SEASON ONE, PART TWO Paperback Rodney Barnes 9781302932862 $22.50 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 02, 2023

The comic book adaptation of the hit series continues! A rookie bounty hunter needs a little help with a tough job, and who better than the Mandalorian to lend his expertise? But when Mando finds himself allied with a ragtag crew of cutthroat mercenaries looking to spring a convict from a prison ship, the mission will turn out to be far more difficult - and deadly - than it appeared! As an old rival offers an olive branch, the Mandalorian welcomes the chance to enjoy a little peace - but before long, he finds himself cornered by powerful enemie... + Read More
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Series: DARKWEBMSMARV2022 DARK WEB Paperback Zeb Wells 9781302948603 $43.75 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 02, 2023

The worlds of Spider-Man and the X-Men collide! Marvel’s two most famous and famously wronged clones - Chasm (Ben Reilly) and the Goblin Queen (Madelyne Pryor) - are back, they’ve had enough of being second best and they’re going to claim what’s rightfully theirs! The sun is setting, and it’s going to be a long night for Spidey and the X-Men. But what role does the volatile Venom play in the clones’ vengeful plot? And what will become of the young hero Ms. Marvel when she ends up trapped in Limbo?! The dark web that Madelyne and Ben will spin o... + Read More
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Series: FF2022 FANTASTIC FOUR BY RYAN NORTH VOL. 1: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE FANTASTIC FOUR? Paperback Ryan North 9781302932633 $25.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jul 11, 2023

Collects Fantastic Four (2022) #1-6. Something has gone terribly wrong in New York! The Thing and Alicia are traveling across America to escape it! But when they stop for the night and wake up the morning before they arrived, they find themselves caught in a time loop that’s been going on since before they were born! Meanwhile, Reed and Sue are on the run from their troubles - and make an unfortunate stop in a small town full of killer Doombots! But what is their terrible secret? And Johnny is left alone in New York - a city that hates and fear... + Read More
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Series: LORE OLYMPUS Lore Olympus: Volume Four Paperback Rachel Smythe 9780593599051 $28.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jun 06, 2023

Scandalous gossip, wild parties, and forbidden love—the Greek tale of Hades and Persephone gets a romantic modern update in the gorgeously illustrated, Eisner Award-winning Lore Olympus, including behind-the-scenes content!An ingenious take on the Greek Pantheon, Lore Olympus is a modern update on the story of Hades and Persephone. Follow the propulsive love story of two Greek gods, told with lavish artwork and contemporary sensibilities.This full-color edition of Smythe’s original Eisner Award-winning webcomic Lore Olympus features exclusive b... + Read More
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Series: SECINV2022 SECRET INVASION: MISSION EARTH Media tie-in Paperback Ryan North 9781302934729 $22.50 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jun 20, 2023

The Skrulls are back - with a vengeance! When Maria Hill detects the merest hint of Skrull activity, she immediately puts her defensive plans into action. Nick Fury is sent to investigate a sighting in Iowa, but he quickly finds the last thing he was expecting! Earth’s defenders are extremely motivated to ensure that this new Skrull Secret Invasion doesn’t go the way the last one did. All Maria needs to do is confirm that the Avengers really are who they claim to be. What could possibly go wrong? A familiar face from her past is behind this lat... + Read More
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But You Have Friends Paperback Emilia McKenzie 9781603095273 $19.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Aug 08, 2023

When a dear friend dies by suicide, Emilia is left with only memories. Full of humor and poignancy, this graphic memoir is a meditation on the meaning of friendship and a love letter to an irreplaceable friend.Emilia first met Charlotte in their school locker room in the late ’90s. They quickly bonded over indie music, feminist literature, a love of purple, and a shared sense of outsiderness. Their joyful, intense friendship evolved through the years—until Charlotte died in 2018 following a long struggle with depression.Now, Emilia assembles he... + Read More
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Crashing Paperback Matthew Klein 9781684059874 $22.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jul 04, 2023

House meets Gotham Central in this powered up medical drama featuring a prized physician caught amid recovery from addiction and a polarizing campaign aimed to strip superpowered humans of healthcare rights.Rose Osler is a specialist. Her focus? Patients with Powers…at a hospital with a No Powered Patients policy. When a battle between Boston’s protectors and destroyers erupts, Rose is trapped between saving the city’s beloved hero by day and greatest villain at night. Except Rose could become a casualty when she’s forced to risk her recovery. ... + Read More
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Quantum Supremacy How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything Hardcover Michio Kaku 9780385548366 $41.00 COMPUTERS May 02, 2023

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An exhilarating tour of humanity’s next great technological achievement—quantum computing—which may supercharge artificial intelligence, solve some of humanity’s biggest problems, like global warming, world hunger, and incurable disease, and eventually illuminate the deepest mysteries of science, by the bestselling author of The God Equation. • “Expertly describes and rectifies common misconceptions about quantum computing.“ —Science ”[Kaku’s] lucid prose and thought process make abundant sense of this technological ... + Read More
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The Essential Cocktail Deck 50 Cards for Mixing Modern Drinks Cards Potter Gift 9780593235706 $29.99 COOKING Jun 20, 2023

Shake up your next get-together with this indispensable deck of 50 cards featuring classic and unique cocktail recipes.Bring happy hour home! Keep this deck of fifty cards near your bar for a compact, comprehensive repertoire of essential cocktail recipes. From perfected classics, like the Whiskey Sour or Mint Julep, to new and exciting cocktails such as the Angostura Colada or Kentucky Buck, The Essential Cocktail Deck has a drink for everyone. No matter what card you pick, you’ll be able to build, shake, or stir your drink with ease by follow... + Read More
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Cook It Up Bold Moves for Family Foods: A Cookbook Hardcover Alex Guarnaschelli 9780593577981 $41.00 COOKING Sep 05, 2023

Learn cooking basics and how to cook with confidence with Alex Guarnaschelli and her daughter, Ava!From the time she was old enough to hold a fork, Ava has been at Alex’s side in the kitchen, whether eating lusciously cheesy gnocchi at Alex’s New York City restaurant, Butter, or making classic French omelets with her famous Iron Chef mom. While Alex turns to treasured cookbooks for inspiration, 15-year-old Ava scrolls through TikTok—and now as a teenager, Ava is teaching Alex a thing or two.Through seventy-five witty and informative recipes, Al... + Read More
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Where We Ate A Field Guide to Canada's Restaurants, Past and Present Hardcover Gabby Peyton 9780525611660 $36.00 COOKING Jun 06, 2023

“You’ve heard (and probably asked) this question a million times: ‘Where did you go for dinner?’” A love letter to 150 Canadian restaurants, and the stories and people behind them—from pre-Confederation to present day, from Victoria to St. John’s—here’s where we ate.What is Canadian cuisine? While cookbook authors and historians have spent decades trying to answer this question, Canadian food isn’t summed up by one iconic dish, but rather a huge range of meals, flavours, and cultural influences. It’s about the people who make our food, who cook... + Read More
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Let's Bake Over 100 Recipes for Gifting and Sharing Hardcover Gail Sweeney 9781578269600 $30.00 COOKING Jan 30, 2024

Over 100 recipes of cookies, cakes, pies, and other delicious treats to gift, share, and enjoy!The most satisfying part of baking is the happiness it brings to others. This spirit of giving is baked into the pages of this unique and special cookbook. From traditional favorites to new creations, Let’s Bake will have a bevy of options for gifting and sharing from your kitchen with additional features such as:Best way to present what you’ve made at a gatheringTips on wrapping/packaging or gift boxingOccassions and celebrations best suited for cert... + Read More
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Knife Drop Creative Recipes Anyone Can Cook Hardcover Nick DiGiovanni 9780744076776 $47.00 COOKING Jun 13, 2023

Forget the rules. Just cook!Home-cooked food doesn’t have to be over-the-top, fussy, or time-intensive to be absolutely amazing. In his debut cookbook, Nick DiGiovanni gives you the tools to become fearless in the kitchen and to create delicious meals.Building on a foundation of staple recipes such as basic pasta dough and homemade butter, Nick shares a mouthwatering selection of his favorite recipes. Feast on New England favorites like Browned Butter Lobster Rolls and Garlic Butter Steak Tips, enjoy decadent pasta dishes like Smoky Mezcal Riga... + Read More
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The Olive Oil Enthusiast A Guide from Tree to Table, with Recipes Hardcover Skyler Mapes 9781984861771 $26.99 COOKING Aug 15, 2023

A comprehensive, practical introduction to the often misunderstood world of olive oil—with recipes for appetizers, pasta, sauces, and desserts—from the founders and producers of the acclaimed EXAU Olive Oil brand.Humans have produced and enjoyed olive oil for thousands of years, but education about olive oil is woefully lacking. After meeting and falling in love with an American on holiday, then moving to the U.S., Giuseppe Morisani was shocked to discover that quality olive oil was not appreciated or even available in many parts of the United ... + Read More
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Prairie Seasonal, Farm-Fresh Recipes Celebrating the Canadian Prairies Hardcover Dan Clapson 9780525611929 $37.50 COOKING Aug 29, 2023

Over 100 Proud-to-be-Prairie recipes showcasing the seasons, produce, flavours, and traditions of one of Canada’s most exciting culinary regions.Dan Clapson and Twyla Campbell take us on a grand tour of the many faces and places that make up the Canadian Prairies. With over 100 delectable recipes, Prairie draws inspiration from the beauty of the changing seasons as well as the many different ingredients and cultures that make the Prairies such a culinary hotspot. The book is filled withTried-and-true seasonal recipes that will introduce Prairie... + Read More
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The Scottish Kitchen More than 100 Timeless Traditional and Contemporary Recipes from Scotland Hardcover Gary Maclean 9780525612704 $37.50 COOKING Jun 29, 2023

“A cookbook that gives haggis its due”—The New York Times“On every page of this book, I was transported back to Scotland.”—Sam Heughan, star of OutlanderA stunning showcase of Scottish cooking, with over 100 recipes celebrating the very best of bonnie Scotland—from the country’s National Chef, Gary Maclean.Scottish cuisine is known and loved the world over—from its historic beginning hundreds of years ago to its current position on the world’s food stage—but no cookbook has ever gathered the country’s finest traditional and contemporary recipes... + Read More
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A Middle Eastern Pantry Essential Ingredients for Classic and Contemporary Recipes: A Cookbook Hardcover Lior Lev Sercarz 9780593235638 $48.00 COOKING Jun 13, 2023

A vivid and insightful exploration of Middle Eastern ingredients featuring 90 recipes and transportive photography, from the author of Mastering Spice and The Spice CompanionIsraeli-born author, chef, and spice master Lior Lev Sercarz brings home cooks on a fantastical journey to the Middle East to learn about the region’s most coveted recipes via its most sought-after ingredients from spices to syrups and seeds to cured meats and dried fruit.Through ninety delicious recipes, historically driven ingredient research, essays on Middle Eastern foo... + Read More
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Blueberries for Sal Cookbook Sweet Recipes Inspired by the Beloved Children's Classic Hardcover Robert McCloskey 9780593580400 $19.00 COOKING Jun 06, 2023

Enjoy 30 sweet blueberry recipes in this beautifully illustrated official cookbook based on the beloved children’s classic Blueberries for Sal.With over three million copies sold since its publication in 1948, Robert McCloskey’s Blueberries for Sal has established its place in the hearts of readers worldwide. Now, for the first time, you can share Little Sal’s love of blueberries with this charming cookbook of thirty family-friendly, blueberry-based recipes to enjoy, including:Classics: Blueberry Pie and Blueberry MuffinsBreakfast Treats: Berry... + Read More
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The Mushroom Hunters A Hidden World of Food, Money, and (Mostly Legal) Adventure Paperback Langdon Cook 9780345536273 $24.95 NATURE Aug 08, 2023

For readers of Michael Pollan’s This is Your Mind on Plants and Merlyn Sheldrake’s Entangled Life, a renowned culinary adventurer goes into the woods with the iconoclasts and outlaws who seek the world’s most coveted ingredient…and one of nature’s last truly wild foods: the uncultivated, uncontrollable mushroom.Within the dark corners of America’s forests grow culinary treasures. Chefs pay top dollar to showcase these elusive and enchanting ingredients on their menus. Whether dressing up a filet mignon with smoky morels or shaving luxurious whi... + Read More
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HealthyGirl Kitchen 100+ Plant-Based Recipes to Live Your Healthiest Life Hardcover Danielle Brown 9780744078077 $42.00 COOKING May 16, 2023

An accessible plant-based cookbook from a non-judgmental vegan featuring delicious and easy recipes that will make you feel your bestWhether you’re a practicing vegan or just interested in trying out more plant-based meals, HealthyGirl Kitchen is the go-to cookbook for insanely easy, out-of-this-world delicious recipes that will help you become the best version of yourself.Danielle Brown is the wildly popular vegan influencer behind HealthyGirl Kitchen, having created hundreds of recipes that are simple and approachable. These recipes will show... + Read More
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Series: ALL NEW 20 TO MAKE All-New Twenty to Make: Flowers to Crochet Hardcover Sarah-Jane Hicks 9781800921009 $13.95 CRAFTS & HOBBIES Jun 27, 2023

Crochet your favorite flower and more, with 20 gorgeous projects to choose from.For beautiful buds that will last all year round, crochet this lovely little collection of flowers by the author of the best-selling Amigurumi Christmas, Sarah-Jane Hicks.There are 20 stunning flowers to choose from, including a sunshine-yellow sunflower, the classic rose, a dainty daisy, a sweet snowdrop and the bumblebee’s favourite: lavender.Once you’ve crocheted your blooms, use them to embellish clothing and accessories, or even turn them into a floral wreath a... + Read More
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Series: MINI KNITTED Knit a Mini Safari 20 tiny animals to knit Hardcover Sachiyo Ishii 9781800921429 $15.95 CRAFTS & HOBBIES Jul 04, 2023

Knit your own safari with these 20 tiny animals to love!Choose from a herd of safari favorites, including lions, tigers and zebras, as well as cheeky monkeys, colourful parrots and stately elephants. The sizes range between 1.25 and 4.75in (3 and 12cm), so these sweet little projects are perfect for using up your yarn stash.Complete with step-by-step sewing-up, stuffing and embroidery techniques, these fun, simple patterns are ideal for knitters of all skill levels.
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Style for Everybody A Guide to Curating Your Essential Wardrobe Hardcover Kim Appelt 9780525612216 $26.00 DESIGN Aug 29, 2023

The go-to fashion roadmap sharing the secrets to building a capsule wardrobe for all body shapes and personal styles.We’ve all felt that defeat: thumbing through blouse after blouse in your closet, feeling like you have absolutely nothing to wear. Or at least, nothing you feel good in. That’s where Style for Everybody comes in. Kim Appelt is a stylist to the stars, and while her chic looks dazzle at award shows and beyond, she knows life’s not all about being red carpet ready. Building on the fun, approachable style wisdom from her popular YouT... + Read More
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Superfreaks Kink, Pleasure, and the Pursuit of Happiness Hardcover Arielle Greenberg 9780807020210 $38.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Aug 01, 2023

A deliciously subversive and endlessly informative celebration of “kinky f*ckery,” as told by a lifelong student of kink and fetishismNeither a how-to guide to getting it on nor a collection of sensational erotica, Superfreaks is instead an empathetic journey into the widely misunderstood world of kink. Lifelong practitioner and student of “kinky f*ckery” Arielle Greenberg draws on her study and teaching of BDSM and fetishism to introduce kink’s history and trailblazing kinksters like Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Mollena Williams-Haas, and Tom of... + Read More
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How to Raise an Antiracist Paperback Ibram X. Kendi 9780593242551 $24.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Jun 06, 2023

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The book that every parent, caregiver, and teacher needs to raise the next generation of antiracist thinkers, from the author of How to Be an Antiracist and recipient of the MacArthur “Genius” Grant.“Kendi’s latest…combines his personal experience as a parent with his scholarly expertise in showing how racism affects every step of a child’s life…. Like all his books, this one is accessible to everyone regardless of race or class.”—Los Angeles Times (Book Club Pick)The tragedies and reckonings around racism that... + Read More
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My Own Blood A Memoir of Special-Needs Parenting Paperback Ashley Bristowe 9780735278189 $22.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Jun 13, 2023

Mothering under normal circumstances takes all you have to give. But what happens when your child is disabled, and sacrificing all you’ve got and more is the only hope for a decent future? Full of rage and resilience, duty and love, Ashley Bristowe delivers a mother’s voice like no other we’ve heard.When their second child, Alexander, is diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder, doctors tell Ashley Bristowe and her husband that the boy won’t walk, or even talk—that he is profoundly disabled. Stunned and reeling, Ashley researches a disorder so ne... + Read More
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Series: SAM AND REMI FARGO ADVENTURE,A Clive Cussler The Serpent's Eye Hardcover Robin Burcell 9780593419618 $42.00 FICTION Jun 04, 2024

Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo face a new exciting adventure in the bestselling series by Clive Cussler, Grand Master of Adventure.The latest action-packed thriller featuring tresure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo.Series Overview: Sam and Remi Fargo are a husband and wife treasure-hunting team who travel to exotic locales around the globe, unraveling ancient mysteries, unearthing long-lost treasures, and finding themselves in sticky situations at every turn.